Details
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815–1879)
The Dirty Monk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1865
albumen silver print mounted on blue card
facsimile inscription and sitter's signature 'I prefer the Dirty Monk / to the others of me / A. Tennyson / except one by Mayall' (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
mount: 17 x 1512 in. (43.1 x 39.3 cm.)
Provenance
Photographs from the Graham Nash Collection, Sotheby's, New York, April 25th 1990, lot 13;
Diego Cortez Arte Ltd, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991.
Literature
Helmut Gernsheim, Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work, Aperture, Millerton, 1975, pl. 22.
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